Urban Meyer in as Ohio state football coach

Urban Meyer has been hired as the head football coach at Ohio state university.  Ohio states football programm took a huge downturn after multiple players were accused of selling memoribilia for tattoos and money.

Cutler out Henie in for bears

Jay Cutler the Chicago Bears quarterback is out for probably the rest of the regular season with a broken thumb that he had surgery on. Caleb Henie the Bears backup quarterback will start in his place. Henie who filled in last year in the NFC championship game after Cutler was hurt with a knee injury. Lovie Smith the bears coach said this " Dont feel sorry for us". Smith said Cutler will have surgery as soon as possible so they can possibly get him back for the regular season. Henie filled in pretty well last year and the bears will rally around him.

Arrest made in white house shooting

A Idaho man wanted for shooting a bullet at the white house was arrested Wedsnday in western Pennylsvania.Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez who was detained by Pennyslvania state police , allegedly was involved in shooting at a white house window on Friday.One bullet hit the window and was stopped by the bulletproof glass secret service said. Another hit the exterior. The man is supposed to appear in federal court in pittsburgh at 2 pm.

Shaq thinks Phil Jackson will coach in NBA again.

Shaquille Oneill who was coached by Phil Jackson thinks that he will coach again... and for the New York Knicks specifically to replace Mike Dantoni. Oneill said "He may come back" to a group of New York writers. "Phil says hes never coming back but he changed my career". Every always listens when Shaq talks reporters say so you never know what could really happen. Jackson has said all throughout the 10-11 season that he would not coach again. Even though he has a huge amount of competiveness he says he doesnt want to be stuck in the game forever.

Chinese spacecraft returns from mission

A unnamed chinese spacecraft returned from a docking mission. The craft landed by parachute it docked twice and there is still 1 craft in earths orbit. China will have 2 more orbiters and by 2020 and completely manned by then.China has been making steady progress towards a space station since 2003. The station will way about 60 tons considerably lighter than any other. China started there space station after a failed attemt to join the international space station.China said that they will not rule out anywthing involving the United States or Germany. It has also been said that Germany has allowed China to use bio labs.

NASA set to launch mars mission

NASA announced tuesday that it will launch its latest Mars mission. NASA will launch the rover named curiosity using a ATLAS V at cape canaveral in Florida. The mission is said to take about 8 monthsThe rover is expected to arrive on the planet on August 6, 2012. The rover is reportedly nearly seven foot tall and is twice as big as previous Mars’ rovers. Officials say it weighs over a ton, and it is expected to carry more than ten times the amount of scientific equipment sent with the Spirit and Opportunity rovers launched in 2004. The mission cost will $2.5 billion

Charity chief resigns

Second Mile CEO Jack Raykovitz is the latest person to be ousted in the aftermath of charges by a Pennsylvania grand jury that former Penn State assistant football coach  used his position at the charity to molest at least eight young boys over 15 years. Last week, Penn State fired its president and legendary football coach .Raykovitz's resignation came as Second Mile's board said it had hired an outside law firm. The firm will investigate how Second Mile responded to previous reports that Sandusky had abused boys he met through the charity.

Mayweathers adviser says fight is a joke

On Wednesday night, Leonard Ellerbe, one of Mayweather's advisers, told ESPN that Mayweather had decided to return to the ring May 5 and that they had put the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on hold."We're looking to make the biggest fight possible and everyone knows what that fight is, the little fella," said Ellerbe who talked about Pacquiao.Pacquiao defends his welterweight title in a third showdown with Juan Manuel Marquez at the MGM Grand on Nov. 12. Arum said the Mayweather camp making an announcement about his next fight just before Pacquiao's bout was simply a way of trying to steal some of the spotlight from Pacquiao. Arum also said if the Mayweather camp was serious about trying to make the fight they would come to him privately, not work though the media.

Maj Emmanuel Chirchir used Twitter to warn Kenyans not to sell their donkeys to the Islamist group.
Kenya sent troops into Somalia to establish a buffer zone after accusing al-Shabab of crossborder kidnappings.He  also posted video which he says shows a small al-Shabab boat being sunk killing 18 militants and warned aircraft not to land in the Islamist held town of Baidoa following reports that al-Shabab had been flying in new supplies of weapons

Record in rhino killing

341 rhinos have been killed so far in 2011 already passing last years record  of 333.
WWF says the spike in poaching in Africa and South Asia is becase of increased demand for rhino horn in Vietnamese  medicine.Poachers sawed off a rhinos horn leaving the animal to bleed to death.
In the five years up to 2005 an average of 36 rhinos were killed each year in South Africa.
The WWF said law enforcement efforts were increasing but were not enough to stop the smuggling and sale of their horns by organised crime rings.

Navy intercepts Gaza bound ships

The United States Navy intercepted ships headed for Gaza.The Navy successfully boarded two Gaza-bound boats attempting to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip on Friday.The activists will be turned over to police and immigration.Theships weretold that they could turn around and prevent an of the closure or head to a port in Egypt. The activists on board refused to listen to  the navys call and refused to act  with the instructions they were given. The flotilla was heading toward the area under closure, the navy said